The Forgotten p7

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The info that the Galactica had finally decrypted was giving an info that contradicted what Fleet Assets ships were supposedly be for the Fifth Fleet based in Picon ..

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Bill gave him a look but didn’t say anything. 

If the message really was about an old CNF cipher those ciphers would be at least four decades old. Despite this he had little doubt Galactica still had them. The navy, like all branches of the military, were packrats at heart, it was simply easier to collect massive piles of shit and let it gather dust then getting rid of it. Case in point, Ragnar Anchorage, unused for the last ten years but still there because the Colonial fleet couldn’t be bothered with sending our a few technicians to shut off its reactors and let it fall into the gas-giant. 

“Found the cipher book. Loading encryptions now.” Dualla reported as she hocked-up the old memory card to the computer. 

“We got a handshake, ship-to-ship communication has been established.” Dulla reported as the contacts on dradis flashed from yellow to green, displaying group numbers, SSG-51 “Aurora“. 

Tigh focused on the readout, making sure that he read it correctly.

The first three letters designated task-force types, SSG meant a Strike-Star Group, which had already been confirmed by the warbook and dradis. 

The two numbers designated Fleet and squadron number, 51 would mean Fifth Fleet, First Squadron. First Squadron was by tradition the lead squadron of its respective fleet, and the lead vessel of the first squadron was the damn flagship from which the Fleet’s commander lead his forces.

That readout couldn’t be right, Seventh-Fleet was responsible for Caprica and its surrounding space, Fifth Fleet was stationed at Picon. Besides, the Fifty-First was Admiral Nagala’s lead squadron, and lead squadron’s of a fleet were always a fraking Battlestar-Group. 

“Launch alert vipers.” Bill ordered after having come to the same conclusion. To an observer that didn’t know Bill Adama closely it might look like he was fully focused on the dradis. Tigh had known Bill for decades and knew that right know he was deep in thought. 

Whatever else, launching vipers was a wise precaution, transmitting a false IFF was illegal for a colonial ship, civilian and military alike. 

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